The biatrial substrate properties in different types of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 961-967

  Huang, Shih Yu ^a,b   Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a,c   Tsao, Hsuan Ming ^c   Chang, Shih Lin ^a,c   Lo, Li Wei ^a,c   Hu, Hu Feng ^a,c   Suenari, Kazuyoshi ^c   Lin, Yung Kuo ^d   Huang, Jen Hung ^d   Chen, I Chung ^b   Ko, Wen Chin ^b   Ong, Eng Thiam ^b   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Pulmonary vein; Substrate mapping; Superior vena cava

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 79959947001     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.01.046     Document Type: Article

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